This weird situation created by cars that are mostly automatic but not quite fully automatic, have moved to screens for the dash or a permanently back lit dash, and increasingly bright DRL’s that pass for headlights in a lot of cities with sufficient street lights.

Having a car that is automatic in so many ways means drivers don’t have a habit of managing things manually. They probably have an automatic lights setting even and the driver doesn’t realize the auto setting has been switched off.

Having a dash that is always lit removes the obvious queue to a driver that they are driving with their headlights off at night.

And bright DRL‘s remove the obvious queue to the driver of a dark road in front of them.

None of these innovations is bad on its own. But the conflation of them all means about one in 50 cars I see on the road at night is driving with no tail lights on or any side markers.

Yes, they have reflectors and my headlights light them up so I can usually see they

It’s a good caturday to sit in a windowsill and watch the world go by. #caturday

The TSA has attempted to roll out more facial recognition in airports but has so far been blocked from doing so. Clear is stepping in to gather all that biometric data for them, in addition to the fingerprints and Iris scans they already have, and provid it to TSA directly while making a profit on the side from doing so. 

“In the near future, Clear's new facial recognition system will electronically transmit members' digital identities to TSA's second-generation Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2) scanners, Clear says.”

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/clear-at-airport-facial-recognition

They have not received any OSHA fines, but that’s because they haven’t submitted injury data to OSHA since 2016. But now employees are starting to self-report.

I really love this Kickstarter digital photo/art frame and even though the company shut down this week, I have kept mine alive and made it work really well, better in some ways than it did before.

Here's the post on keeping the EO1 alive in zombie mode. I hope it helps someone else not throw away this cool device! https://z32guru.com/tech-projects/electric-objects-eo1-zombie-mode

I also started/hosted a community for fellow EO1 hackers to help share knowledge on how the device works. https://seattlelunarsociety.org/c/electricobjectseo1

Bob.

Algebros

That would make him the Centaur for Disease Control.

If you have a longer joke that doesn't fit the format but is still a clean joke, happy to have those here: https://seattlelunarsociety.org/c/momjokes Not trying to advertise, just wanted to help people find a place to land in the Fediverse, and doing my part to host some of it.

Here's that dad joke I promised:

What do you call a bear with no teeth?

Welcome to (hopefully) your new home! Invite your friends, reddit mods, friendly mobs, villagers... even those creepers! All are welcome.

You should also know about https://lemmy.world/c/oldschoolminecraft if that's your jam.

What do you call kids born in a bordello?

Brothel sprouts

Where do you take someone who’s been injured in a peek–a-boo accident?

A few hours ago I dropped a piece of ice

It slid under the refrigerator. I was really upset at first but now it's water under the fridge.

(Posted on Reddit years ago by u/drewigi, I just liked it)

I just found out Canada isn’t real

Turns out it was all just mapleleaf

Babies are born with 4 kidneys.

When they grow up, 2 of them turn into adult knees.